skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Prior to certain events in the last year I would’ve said that there were some objective standards like minimizing harm to children, but that’s out the window now, with most of Big Tech implicated.

You're saying as if it's indisputable that "Big Tech" was harming children, but we're nowhere close to that. At best, the current literature shows a very weak negative correlational relationship between social media use and mental health. That's certainly not enough to lambast "Big Tech" for failing to abide by "objective standards like minimizing harm to children".

Moreover I question whether "objective standards like minimizing harm to children" existed to begin with, or we're just looking at the past with rose tinted glasses. During the industrial revolution kids worked in factories and mines. In the 20th century they were exposed to lead and particulate pollution. Even if you grant that "Big Tech" was harming kids in some way, I doubt they're doing it in some unprecedented way like you implied.
Fast-forward 100 years into the future, 20 years after we discovered that also plants were sentient and have feelings too, and some news corporation will run a story about how crazy the 2000s were, since people were openly eating fruit and seemingly people cheered them on.
What Fraction of Containerization Is Just Working Around Dynamic Linking?
Just stupid Americans saying Stupid American stuff.
Not only do I disagree with the premise, but I think the article is poorly argued.

Was working on the Manhattan project unethical because it furnished the ability for us to kill humans on an even more vast industrial scale than we previously could have imagined? Perhaps, but it's hard to square this with the reality that the capability of mutually assured destruction has ushered in the longest period of relative peace and global stability in recorded history, during a period of time we might otherwise expect dramatically increased conflict and strife (because we are sharing our limited planet with an additional order of magnitude of humans). Had everyone at Los Alamos boycotted the effort, would we be in a better place when some other power inevitably invented the atomic bomb? Somehow I doubt it.

The world is a complex system. While there are hopefully an expanding set of core "values" that we collectively believe in, any single person is going to be challenged by conflicting values at times. This is like the Kagan stages of psychological development [1], but societally. I can believe that it's net bad for society that someone is working on a cigarette manufacturing line, without personally holding them accountable for the ills that are downstream of their work. There are competing systems (family, society) that place competing values (good - we can afford to live, bad - other people get sick and die) on the exact same work.

If people want to boycott some types of work, more power to them, but I don't think the line between "ethical" and "unethical" tasks is so clear that you can put whole corporations on one side or another of that line.

Sometimes I try and put a dollar amount on how much value I have received from Google in my lifetime. I've used their products for at least 20 years. Tens of thousands of dollars seems like an accurate estimate. I'm happy to recognize that two things are true: that there are societal problems with some big tech businesses that we would collectively benefit from solving AND that I (and millions of other people less fortunate than me, that couldn't "afford" the non-ad-supported cost of these services) have benefited tremendously from the existence of Google and its ilk.

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/LSkzutj
> Less than 1/100th of 1%.

?? 1 in 1500 is 1/15th of 1%, which is more than 1/100th of 1%...
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Why yes, I did happen to work in US data centers throughout the 2010's... including during Snowden's [then adamently-denied] revelations.

"If you're taking flak, you're near the target."
The govt was changed despite big tech not because of it. And the majority of people disagree with your characterization of "authoritarian rule".
I can't believe how uninformed, angry, and still willing to argue about it people were over this. The whole point was a very reasonable compromise between a legal requirement to scan photos and keeping photos end-to-end encrypted for the user. You can say the scanning requirement is wrong, there's plenty of arguments for that. But Apple went so above and beyond to try to keep photo content private and provide E2E encryption while still trying to follow the spirit of the law. No other big tech company even bothers, and somehow Apple is the outrage target.
You're welcome:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill#Litigat...
Thank you so much. I've been impacted similarly. If I have some luck I will let you know.

(I put my email in my bio, I might have some useful stuff too)

:)
What I was trying to say is the thing that makes him dangerous is that he believes disaster is possible and is still heading towards that possibility with maximum velocity.

That makes him one of the few people alive who, in their own estimation, has a real chance to destroy the world as we know it. And if that doesn’t humble you (he’s anything but humble) or make you change course then you’re a villain in my book.
I don't know where you get your statistics, but Russia's demographics is roughly 70% "ethnic russians," which amounts to about 100m people.
I have! Indians can tell I’m Bangladeshi and exclude me in just us desis” groups. And once I was riding in an elevator with an Arab family and they said something in Arabic about the “Bangladeshi” that I assume wasn’t very nice.

The only time a white American ever said anything negative to me was a middle school bully, and I called him a pig-nosed pink pig in response. Both of us were just looking to get a rise out of the other, so in my estimation that’s not “racism.”
Would you mind giving an example of something bad that could happen to somebody as a result of Apple sending this data to itself? Something concrete, where the harm would be realized, for example somebody being hurt physically, emotionally, psychologically, economically, etc
Fragile? Did you watch the video?

How bad must it be for you?
were honest with the candidate about why we asked the question.
In light of these contexts, what would you rather see at the top of HN?
These original IBM models were much more durable than current Unicomp output. I suspect it comes down to the modern metal composition of the spring [being different than 80's versions].

See somebody else's similar experience, below.

>I've been waiting for it to fail for a decade at this point so I can upgrade

Yours must have been one of the good ones =D
GP comment: factual statement using a specific device as a counterexample

Parent comment: handwavy "still compromises something", but can't be certain what, then gives a personal anecdote.
I would qualify your statement this way.

In my experience, National Security tends to mean the security of (primarily) the US Gov and (secondarily) Gov contractors and major campaign donors. National Security applies to individuals when justification is needed to deploy systems that surveil Americans (not suspected of a crime).
Yes, this is one of the main reasons people mostly build on web. It's very difficult to make desktop software better, and especially Linux users are hostile to patterns that would make improvements possible
Sometimes technology can be used as a hack to workaround regulation that makes affordable housing illegal.
Does CIA recruit US citizens living abroad into spying for the US?
The claim is silly and unfounded. If anything, kqueue is the interface that pollutes userspace less. You have a single kevent call that is used both for waiting and registering events represented by (filter, ident) tuples. All of the data related to the event is contained in a struct that’s passed between the kernel and the user. For non-fd events (EVFILT_PROC, EVFILT_TIMER, EVFILT_SIGNAL), it is much more straightforward to use compared to the Linux way where you need to keep track of one more resource, read specific binary data from it, have specific flags, etc.
CodeTogether (jetbrains extension) returns 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
The weird thing is that I traced out the circuitry and the bottom bit of the adder is discarded, not the top bit where overflow would happen. (Note that you won't get overflow for this addition because the partial remainder is in range, just split into the sum and carry parts.)
No one said "man-child" until you did.
At a societal level, sure. And we should try to solve homelessness broadly.

But in the meantime, why not ease the suffering of those who need and want a warm, safe bed?
Dollar stores still exist today. Dollar Tree is actually a gold mine of deals!
Y2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were freaking out
I’m certainly going to get downvoted for this, but I’m referring to the use of computing resources for AI surveillance systems used in target selection in Gaza. That alongside the fact that Microsoft, Amazon, Google, NVIDIA etc. all vie for contracts with militaries domestic and global, implicates a large chunk of all tech workers in global strife.
> "It is immoral to not produce weapons of war for western countries and the US in particular"

I cannot imagine that a substantial "many" people believe this. How does it work exactly? If you have any expertise even adjacent to weapons building (e.g. being a programmer) and you are not building weapons for the US due to a lack of effort (as opposed to failing the interview) you're doing something immoral?

I don't think many would agree with this. I suppose his stance is somehow more nuanced? (I wouldn't agree with it either, but at least it would be slightly more reasonable).
Which of our allies make China look like a saint?
No. The analysis in question is fully local, used for indexing photos by categories in the Photos app. It is unrelated to any cloud features and not something shared across users.

They are also not using your personal photos to feed the location database, most likely public sources and/or Apple Maps data. If they are relying on GPS-tagged public photos alone, you could probably mess up a system like this by spoofing GPS location en-masse and posting them online for years, but for what purpose?
> That isn't what is happening

Then why is it happening to me?
I know. It bums me out.

Small phones are all but extinct (unless you count the iPhone 13 mini that Apple discontinued, which I had and I absolutely LOVED). Again, market forces leave us simple folk behind. I'm broken for NOT wanting a 6.3" slate that can hit 2000 lumens on a bright day that requires a case because the titanium is too slippery.

What I would LOVE is a small Kaleido eInk phone that runs Android on a mid-tier SoC. Rooted and debloated; no assistants or AI (like you described).

I would use eLauncher to make a really simple launcher with the names of the apps I use (like I do on my BOOX) and Tasker to automate common tasks. (I want a simple interface so I can move around quickly and move on with my lifem, but have no problem with complexity so long as it's within my control. I'm a heavy user of Shortcuts, as terrible as that software is.) Since I already carry a fanny pack around everyday, I would just use a small mirror less SLR for point and shoot stuff like the Canon EOS M300.
Its probably more a question of scale that makes China unique.
This is not standard operating procedure worldwide, in part because there aren't that many countries folks are trying to flee to:
> America granted him asylum and he settled in New York, becoming the leader of Chinese pro-democracy groups. But in August 2024 he was arrested by the FBI. He admits to having used his position to collect information for the Chinese government and to report on his fellow activists. He did this so that the government would allow him to return to China to see his ailing parents.
What’s natobrained about Russia shooting down the Azeri plane ?
Adding another datapoint: My iPhone 11 is 3 years old (from Apple Center brand new) and battery is already at 73%, prompting me to replace it.

Phone costed me 600€, replacement after recent Apple price hike costs another 100€. I’m already considering just buying another iPhone next year since replacement costs so much.

Since my first Nokia 5110 I’ve replaced 0 screens, 2-3 screen protectors, 1 keypad, and so many batteries. Ofc this is all anecdotal, for me batteries, lack of updates and non-extendable storage have been the main reasons killing otherwise perfectly useable iPhones.
Thank you :) And, sounds like great fun. Shoot me an email (in bio) or let me know how best to get in touch.
I love it that it indexes source code. It allows me to find things easily.
> While I don’t doubt that the author has good reason for their opinion, the reason is handwaved here, no?

I came to the comments hoping to get more explanation. I was waiting for the full explanation of the technical debt but then the article just came to an abrupt end.

I wonder if the article started as a short history and explanation of differences, but then the dramatic headline was chosen to drive more clicks? The article could have been interesting by itself without setting up the “mountain of technical debt” claim in the headline.
a good computer system would allow the application programmer to write their code in a synchronous and single threaded manner and all performance optimizations with respect to multiprocessing (and associated resource sharing) would be handled automatically.
For the same reason people don't think it's OK to rob a bank and donate the money to charity.
In my experience, most people that have semi or full decision-making control over this kind of thing have absolutely no idea if they even need cookie consent banners. They just fall for the marketing speak of every single SAAS product that sells cookie-consent/GDPR stuff and err on the side of caution. No one wants to be the guy that says: "hey, we're only logging X, Y and not Z. And GDPR says we need consent only if we log Z, so therefore we don't need cookie consent." For starters, they need a lawyer to tell them it's "A OK" to do it this way, and secondly it's plain old cheaper and a lot less political capital to just go with the herd on this. The cost of the banner is off-loaded outside of the company and, for the time being, the users don't seem to mind or care.

This is why half the web has cookie-consent banners. No amount of developers who know the details screaming up the ladder will fix this. The emergent behavior put in place by the legal profession and corporate politics favors the SAAS companies that sell GDPR cookie banner products and libraries. Even if they're in the right, there is a greater-than-zero percent chance that if they do the wrong thing they'll go to court or be forced to defend themselves. And even then if it's successful, the lawyers still need to be paid, and the company will look at "that fucking moron Joe from the website department" which caused all their hassles and countless hours of productivity as a result of being a "smart ass".
The same is true of every interesting concept in dev, unfortunately: design patterns being made into a pokedex, agile into an inflexible process, hexagonal arch into a guideline for project directories’ names and layout, metrics into goals, etc.
I visited a friend who, along with a dozen of their friends, bought a series of new build townhomes in a suburb of a major city. It was very, very cool.
I’m not an expert in this, so hoping someone with more knowledge can chime in/correct anything I get wrong.

I have friends with BTC, but no one I know with any have actually used it for purchasing anything. From what I can tell it’s just a speculative commodity that - due to its constant rise in value - no one wants to just exchange it for a pizza (for example) since tomorrow it might be worth more.

This is why the Fed works hard to always keep a steady inflation. Without it, no one would spend the money they have and the economy would grind to a halt.

BTC is basically a fiat currency with rampant deflation.

Combine that with the knowledge that BTC are limited in quantity, and it’s basically a guessing game as to what happens when the last one is mined. My guess is a lot of speculators (ahead of that moment) start trying to cash out.
Good bless Ryan Donais.

I was homeless for five years until four months ago. These thing would have been a xdream for me, and frankly, I could living in one right now. Living in my minivan was fine but these would be a step up.

And if you look around at all the homeless, just know it is not because it is an impossible problem to solve. It is only because we do not have enough compassion in our hearts.
Ah, the good old mnemonic shortcuts for

Zundo, Xcut, Copy(!) or maybe Cancel, Vpaste

Much more memorable compared to Kcut (Kut?) and Ypaste. :p
Look in the Spotlight settings. Not only can you include/exclude default search types. But you can also specify folders not to index.

Why is this even a question, do people not look at the settings at all?
A lot of people would assume that their odds of being involved in two crashes

Their odds?! These are crew members. They likely looked a good number of these people in the eye and interacted with them before seeing them all violently killed in front of them. That's a profoundly traumatizing experience.

Additionally, our brains aren't wired for odds. A veteran is unlikely to be hit by artillery in the US, but that doesn't stop them having PTSD episodes when fireworks go off.
Thanks for the detailed explanation, good to know!
Helpful summary, short but useful
What is the mechanism of Naltrexone in reducing fatigue? It seems like fatigue and sleepiness is a common side effect.

I had really high hopes for modafinil in treating my long-life fatigue issues as well as helping with my severe ADHD since I can't tolerate or access traditional stimulant medication for it rignt now. It was amazing for a week or so but quickly stopped having an effect unless I took 400mg a day, and the side effects of that dose were also not tolerable for me.
> If they sent [...] without consent, would that be okay with you?

No. That would never be acceptable to me.
The US govt has no agency, got it.
Do you have a source for that? I've found his remarks on Pascal and C++ but not Ada.
Maybe you were never homeless. This is not about "tech", it is about compassion.

Homlessness is a compassion problem.
I take it these reports don't stop when they are interns?
A huge country with low population density and high GDP per capita. You have to be really inept to manage to create a housing crisis.

And Australia has managed to get into the same bind.
This. Just as doctors or lawyers or civil engineers can't do their jobs before being vetted by their own professional bodies it's time we do the same for software engineering.
Weird that the earlier article [Enslaved on OnlyFans: Women describe lives of isolation, torment and sexual servitude](https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/onlyfans...) seems to have disappeared off HN and the current OnlyFans-friendly post has appeared instead when ordinarily whole weeks go by in which I see neither positive nor negative posts about the site on HN.
whom did america genocide last year?
Developing inside a virtual machine
I think it's significantly less than 50% -- Your comment made me think of The dictatorship of the small minority[0], which places the value at 3~4%

[0]: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
The superpower aspect is true. Otherwise, India is very friendly with Russia. But we (i.e. big capital) want their H1B labor and outsourcing, so the narrative isn't there yet and many tech companies are headed by Indian CEOs.

I'm exaggerating the above, but until recently China wasn't deemed to be a problem either, so the narrative does seem to play a role.
I'm no fan of Musk but this is has been standard practice at Twitter since it was founded. They are just using slightly different "standards" to decide who to delete/suppress/shadowban.
Hacker News unfortunately does not respond to this logic unless it is a company they are trained to hate. We could run the same story reporting Google and Meta's opt-out abuses, and it would also reach the frontpage with just as many comments. Except those comments would be violent condemnation, not apologetics and hand-wringing over whitepaper quotes.

It's tragic, because computing is in a professedly imperfect place right now. Digital privacy is under fire, many payments see a 30% digital service surcharge that is wholly arbitrary, and revolutionary cross-platform standards are being supplanted with proprietary and non-portable solutions that does not benefit any user.

As an American, I am ashamed that our government's dysfunction extends to consumer protection.
Many other countries would help people with opportunistic industrial espionage so there is a distinct advantage to proactively working with their spy agencies. This is not the case in the West, there is still industrial espionage but it's established and not opportunistic so far fewer people are involved.
A custom built Debian machine with four HDDs in a ZFS volume backed up using restic
That analogy fails because robbing a bank is straightforwardly illegal and norm-breaking (by the majority of the population), whereas being a tobacco executive isn't.
"here we are."

Here where precisely? Civil aviation is extremely safe in 2024, and this crash made worldwide news precisely because crashes are now very rare in the developed world.

If you demand 100 per cent safety, you are bound to be disappointed forever. Not even walking is 100 per cent safe.
In person networking, it still works and the ratio of signal
to noise has only gotten higher post-internet.

SW/Hacker types have this on easy-mode compared to other industries because of how many professional / enthusiast groups we have floating around in every city. We do our jobs outside of work for fun. That's doesn't work for an accountant. Companies seem to vastly prefer recruiting from these events and they get you past the screens. I've never once not gotten the interview emailing or name dropping the event / company rep I talked to.
Gotcha. It's the same for me on an airplane (I think maybe because I'm unable to fall asleep on my back), but I didn't have problems on the sleeper train.

Do you think it's the noise for you, the movement, or something else (like lack of privacy)? I started taking earplugs with me for any kind of trip now, they are a godsend.
First off, thanks for all your work on graphene! I run cyber security for a company in the defense space, with data-sovereignty requirements, and you guys are the only serious project around. You should think about selling support contacts, I know a lot of BlackBerry refugees still looking for something serious. I bet you could sell support and a barebones MDM as subscription /very/ successfully.

(As an aside, I've been very happy to see you are still involved with the project!)

> GrapheneOS has a built-in encrypted backup system

Do you mean seed vault? It's really not satisfactory. For one, I should be able to encrypt my backups with any key of my choosing, on a hardware token if I so choose, not be forced into its silly codeword system or nothing at all. AES, gpg, and X.509 compatible support would get you all of the way there.

Even just letting backups be exported unencrypted, so I can easily and automatically use a trusted device to encrypt it the way all my other data is would make it so much more usable.

Frankly, the current implementation just reads as one of those ridiculous things trying to force the uneducated/uninterested to be secure, with no escape hatch for people who actually know what they are doing, nor for enterprises who need secure mobile devices, but also know an end-user will /never/ successfully take a backup on their own.